qjkxbmwvz

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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Seriously, it is the lowest-latency and highest-bandwidth communication method we have, when used appropriately.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 23 points 1 month ago

If it's a campus bus it's almost certainly free, and probably timed to class schedules. If you only have 10m or so between classes it makes sense.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago

The Gulf of Lesser Canada does have a certain ring to it...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago

Newer macOS is not Unix certified.

It's UNIX 03 compliant https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_UNIX_Specification

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

One or two Linux distros were (are?) UNIX certified, though.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 1 month ago

You can ride your bike on many highways in the USA at least. Generally you cannot on the freeway, but there are some exceptions


in California there are requirements about bike accessibility which means that certain segments of a freeway may be bike accessible.

If you live far from a store then groceries are a problem unless you use a trailer, but if you live in a city it's totally reasonable to use a bike (or walk) for your weekly groceries.

And you can get a new Trek FX for under $600, and that's just from a quick search. Yes of you want Ultegra or better and a carbon frame, the sky is the limit.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think mplayer has an ASCII output mode (VLC, too?), and I believe youtube-dl can output to stdout.

The rest is, as they say, left as an exercise to the reader.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 1 month ago

Haha yeah that was the counter example I was thinking of. I agree completely


you could make a Gentoo from source beginner distro, and I think you could make it reasonably "idiot proof," but it would still be a bad user experience most likely (too much time spent compiling).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

If your distro can't be forked into a "beginner distro" then it's fundamentally flawed IMHO.

To be clear, I've used Arch as my daily drivers for a while, and while it's not the best fit for my needs (I use Debian mostly), there's nothing that I experienced that was incompatible with a "beginner" distro.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 points 1 month ago

Oh absolutely; the folks who sat at home, are outraged that a fascist is in power, and are too dumb to understand how voting works to realize that they enabled it


they are infuriating.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 112 points 1 month ago (7 children)

It's kinda a weird take? Like if I'm in a discussion about some scary things AfD are doing and a left-of-center German joins the conversation, I'd like to think I'd have the ability to...you know...hear what they have to say about things.

There are a bunch of Americans who asked for this; there are a bunch who stood by and did nothing to stop it; and there are a bunch who tried to stop it, did not, and are devastated.

I guess at the end of the day it's just a meme.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

You can also drop cache for debugging by running something like echo 3 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop-caches

But remember that the kernel knows best


this RAM will automatically be freed up when needed and you should never run this except for debugging (or maybe benchmarking).

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